Allow

Two distinct Lat. words, allandare, to praise, approve, and alhmre, to place (the latter through the French alouer), assumed in Eng' the sanTe form 'allow.' Consequently in the five occurrences of this word in AV t^.ere are t«o aistincv meanings, i. To approve : ^\''[ ]P^ that which I do, I a. not' (Or. yi.w<rta., hence KV •know not'); Ro 14« 'Happy is he that con- demneth not himself in tU t^>""K -l.

cli he aeth- (KV 'approveth' ; 1 Th 2«: and Lk U ^Ye a the deeds (R\ ' consent unto the works ) of your fathers.' Cf. Ts 11» Pr. Bk. The Lord a'th^ (AV and RV 'trielh') the rjgh teous 2. To place before one so as to see ami admit it. to acknowledge, accept: Ac 24" ' ^^ huh the^ hem- selves also a.' (Or. ^poaS^xoMa., BV look for "i. ' accept '). Allowable (not in A V or RV) s found in Pref. of AV = ' worthy of approval.' Allowanco is also in Pref.

AV = approval, and has been mtro- duced by RV at Jer's'i" in the mod. sense of . portion^ (AV 'diet'). Cf. 1 Es 1^ ^^^^,^^, ALMIGHTY is used in OT as tr. of n» 48 tunes (all the occurrences of that word) of wh. 31 are AL MODAD ALMSGIVING 67 In Job. In NT it is used as tr. of ravTOKpdrup 10 times (all the occurrences of that word), of wh. 9 are in Kev. It is also freq. in Apocr. See God. J. Hastings. AL HODAD (tiNd^n), the first-named son of Jokt&n, Gn 10, 1 Ch 1.

The context seems to imply that some tribe or district of S. Arabia is meant, but the name has not hitherto been identi- fied w-ith certainty. The first element has been •■ariously explained as the Arab, article (this is perhaps intended by the Massoretic punctuation ; so Dillmann on Gn 10^), as the Sera. El (' God ' ; so Halevy), and as the Arab, dl (' family ' ; so Glaser, Skizze, ii. -lio).

The second element seems clearly to be a derivative of the verb wadd (to love), of the same stem as the name Wadd, a god of the Mina^ans and other Arabian races. As a word that can be read Maudad is applied in inscriptions to the Gebanit«s in their relation to the kinjjs of Main, Glaser supgests that the name should be rendered 'the family to whom the office of Maudad,' i.e.

some priesthood of Wadd, ' was assigned,' and that the tribe should be identified with the Gebanites, whom he places in the S.W. comer of Arabia. Others have supposed the word to be corrupt, and have corrected it Al-Murad, the well- known name of a tribe of Yemen. D. S. Margououth.